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The Logic of Pronominal Resumption (Hardcover)
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The Logic of Pronominal Resumption (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 35
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This book is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive
pronouns and related phenomena. Pronominal resumption is the
realization of the base of a syntactic dependency as a bound
pronoun. Resumption occurs in unbounded dependencies, such as
relative clauses and questions, and in the variety of raising known
as copy raising. Processing factors may also give rise to
resumption, even in environments where it does not normally occur
in a given language. Ash Asudeh proposes a new theory of resumption
based on the use of a resource logic for semantic composition and
the typologically robust observation that resumptive pronouns are
ordinary pronouns in their morphological and lexical properties.
The framework for semantic composition is Glue Semantics and the
syntactic framework is Lexical-Functional Grammar. The author
introduces these frameworks and the concept of resource logics
accessibly and compares results and explanations with those offered
by a number of contrasting theoretical frameworks. The theory
achieves a novel unification of hitherto heterogeneous resumption
phenomena. It unifies two kinds of resumptive pronouns that are
found in unbounded dependencies - one kind behaves syntactically
like a gap, whereas the other kind does not. It also unifies
resumptive pronouns in unbounded dependencies with the obligatory
pronouns in copy raising. The theory also provides the basis for a
new understanding of processing-based resumption, both in
production and in parsing and interpretation. This book makes a
substantial contribution to the understanding of the
syntax-semantics interface, the nature of unbounded dependencies,
and linguistic variation. It is clearly written and includes
examples from a wide range of languages, such as English, Hebrew,
Irish, Swedish, and Vata. It will interest researchers in syntax
and semantics and its results are also relevant to computational
linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the logical analysis of
language. Short blurb This book is a cross-linguistic investigation
of resumptive pronouns and related resumption phenomena. The author
proposes a new theory of resumption based on the use of a resource
logic for semantic composition and the typologically robust
observation that resumptive pronouns are ordinary pronouns in their
morphological and lexical properties.
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